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Ruby

Posted by Prosper Hughie
Prosper Hughie
5,086 Points

I need some help with my ruby on rails application

I am following along with the ruby on rails tutorial. I am at the point where i can get to the sign_up page but when i click sign_up, i get this error: 

ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity::Error in Devise::RegistrationsController#create

Can't mass-assign protected attributes: email, password, password_confirmation

{"utf8"=>"?",
 "authenticity_token"=>"yEcNIsbuzGc44hS+T19eq/YOTB8BSbv1g2GG8luDL+4=",
 "user"=>{"email"=>"",
 "password"=>"[FILTERED]",
 "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]"},
 "commit"=>"Sign up"}

Any ideas why this is happening. I need to resolve this issue to i can move on. Thanks!

2 Answers

Jonathan Amat
Jonathan Amat
4,651 Points
Jonathan Amat
Jonathan Amat
4,651 Points

Did you try going to the user.rb file and adding :email, :password, and :password_confirmation to attr_accessibile?

Prosper Hughie
Prosper Hughie
5,086 Points

I tried this and it didn't work. ); Any other ideas?

Mohsen Qaddoura
Mohsen Qaddoura
22,237 Points
Mohsen Qaddoura
Mohsen Qaddoura
22,237 Points

your problem and its solution is in this video tutorial on Treehouse itself!

here is the link:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/programming/build-a-simple-ruby-on-rails-application/creating-an-authentication-system/generating-the-devise-views

I also had trouble even after following the video,so I also added this gem to the application gem file (after the devise gem ) :

gem 'protected_attributes'

then you have to : 1-stop your rails server (using ctrl +c) from the console> :2- run bundle on the command line to install the above mentioned gem.

When you restart the rails server and refresh the page in the browser this error will disappear,but the next error mentioned in the video will show up , so you just follow the instructions given again and you should be fine.